Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.

Spring is like a perhaps hand

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.